Ogre Brothers

 Just a quick blog post on these chaps here,

 The Ogre Brothers

First designs

 Sketches & finals

Just a little personal project really but these guys were a lot of fun to do and I will definitely exploring them more in the near future!

I'll be doing another mega post before the year is out so expect that at some point in the next few days.

Inktober

Good day everybody!

Last month I took part in a fantastic drawing challenge set by the incredible Jake Parker.
The challenge was to do an ink drawing for everyday of October.
This was such a brilliant exercise for me as it really has helped me pushed my work even more and get used to drawing with ink and watercolour.

I have had an incredible response from people during the whole month and after a bunch of people asking, I decided to set up an Etsy store to sell the original drawings.

Here's a couple of my personal favourites 

 (Sold)

 (Sold)

Currently there are 19 drawings left as 2 have sold and also some sold privately before I even set up the store.

https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/StopmotionBen

If you could have a wee look on the store and maybe pass the link to for me, I would be so very grateful! 

https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/StopmotionBen

I hope you are all well and have had a fabulous October!!!!

Autumn already?

Good day to you!

How has it gotten to Autumn already?!?!?!? This year is going so ridiculously fast. Slow down will ya!!


A few bits and pieces to show in this update.

I did a fairly quick sculpt of a chap that I've been wanting to design for a while. I was going to draw him up but instead I decided to sculpt him. I think it probably took a tiny bit longer than drawing it  but not by that much and I think I will start doing more of these concept sculpts instead of drawing them.Although knowing me I'll probably end up doing both :)
I'm quite happy with how he turned out but I think next time I'd definitely push his expression a lot more.

 I'm just calling him "Cigar Guy" for the moment

Digital paint job

Turn around video

VIMEO link

SHAPE BEASTIES
I've been going over notes from the character design course I did last year. I'm revisiting some of the exercises and the first is shape and shape language. I did these wee beasties

Starting point

Finished beasties

I did these other monsters but forgot to take a screenshot of the shapes.

It's a very fun and rewarding exercise and highly advise people to have a go. Just draw some shapes and have some fun!!

PRINTS!!!!

I got quite a lovely response to these from everyone and I had a few requests for prints.
So I looked into it and set up a store over on Society 6 where you can now buy a few of these and many more.

Today (22nd September, midnight pacific time) is the last day that you can get free shipping
Using this link http://society6.com/stopmotionben/prints?promo=ca2e16

I think they do this promotion every now and then so I'll be sure to post on here it happens again :)

 

So that's it for the moment. I have to get back to work!! I hope everyone is well and being awesome!!!

Oh and here's a bonus doodle, a little test I did with some of the default brushes available in Photoshop cs6. They have some very nice textures to them.

Wayfarers

 Hello everybody!

I'm not going to post any puppet news just yet. I'll be finished up with that in just over a few weeks and will do a mega post when he's done.

But I will post about a little idea of mine that has been fermenting for a few months and now I'm finally starting to rough it out a bit more.. Well not so much as "Rough it out" but more "When I have a spare moment, I think about it for a minute"

Knowing me all of this will most likely change in a few months time.

'Wayfarers'

 

To cut it short, its a story about two brothers and their cat and they go on intergalactic adventures here and there. They meet various aliens on way some good and some bad... very bad.

All of this was spawned from this warm up sketch from a few months backs.

I only have a few bits of character development floating around in my head but that's it for the moment. I do know that I will probably be changing the bird and the snake for something a bit more weird and alien as they will pretty much be companions they've picked up along their other worldly adventures.

Oh, then there are these guys/things/meanies

The "Aylernuns"

I see these being like a pirate/bounty hunter kind of gang. They are lead by the three main meanies and the rest will be a crew of dimwits. I still need to work out the body shapes and keep in mind that they will hopefully become stop motion puppets ;)

The original sketches for those chaps 

That really is all I have so far. Hopefully this will be the first of many updates on this,
Until next time. Never give up, Never surrender!

Strolling chap

Posting this here as I'm having extreme problems uploading it elsewhere. It's still very early days with these animated gifs.

April showers

Good day to all! Just a quick post while I wait for some fast cast resin to set :)

Here's a big selection of drawings from last month up to this week.

A quick update on the puppet

The core elements of the head are done. Now its time to mass produce the top and bottom sections and start sculpting all of the expressions.

I have to give another big thank you to Josh & Nathan Flynn for showing how to do this fantastic technique. You should really check out their website and see how awesome they really are! (click here)

And here is a very short video showing the head off.

That's it for the moment. In the next update I'll hopefully have a lot more puppet stuff to show. Until then, stay safe and keep smiling!!